What MAJOR (aka irreversible now) change do you think Walt would make with a do-over?

[JPKnapp]

Walt was a genius who, it seems, could see into the future. But not every decision he made has turned out the way he likely envisioned. What MAJOR (aka virtually irreversible now) change do you think Walt would make with a do-over? I’ve limited the choices to things he had a bit of a hand in (so no FP comments).

Feel free to add your own, but since the podcast hasn’t done a poll in about a month, I figure I’d throw this one out there.

A. No monorail. Connect resorts with something other than the monorail. It’s expensive, unreliable, doesn’t scale, and isn’t even connected to all parks and hotels.

B. Location of Magic Kingdom. Let’s face it, parking, trams, ferry/monorail, etc isn’t efficient for the size of crowds they pull in.

C. Never combine EPCOTs two worlds.

D. Put an attraction inside/under the castle.​

 

[vatali]

Enclosing each world with office space behind them, so that expansion requires more difficulty than just simple construction and costs. I often wonder if he imagined that it would still be around in this day and age, and if he had, how he had planned for its massive growth.

Not limiting the number of expansions (locations) has been a bigger issue. Still don't understand why there isn't one in the middle east and one in Central America. Expansion of the name wouldn't hurt the product.

I think he did so many things right (buying the land, owning the politics of that land, etc) that the few things we can find wrong from a business perspective are just nit picky.

And they did put an attraction under the castle (in Euro Disney). so at least he made up for that. Even the castle in MK is a lot better than the one in DLR. each new Disney is a learning experience.

 

[JOE DELL]

Room for expansion. Walt probably didn't think this would get so big/popular